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Jeannie Annan
Other affiliations: Indiana University, Harvard University, Columbia University ...read more
Bio: Jeannie Annan is an academic researcher from International Rescue Committee. The author has contributed to research in topics: Poison control & Domestic violence. The author has an hindex of 28, co-authored 73 publications receiving 3231 citations. Previous affiliations of Jeannie Annan include Indiana University & Harvard University.
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TL;DR: This article examined the case of Uganda, where rebel recruitment methods provided exogenous variation in conscription and found that schooling falls by nearly a year, skilled employment halves, and earnings drop by a third.
Abstract: Little is known about the impacts of military service on human capital and labor market outcomes due to an absence of data as well as sample selection: recruits are self-selected, screened, and selectively survive. We examine the case of Uganda, where rebel recruitment methods provide exogenous variation in conscription. Economic and educational impacts are widespread and persistent: schooling falls by nearly a year, skilled employment halves, and earnings drop by a third. Military service seems to be a poor substitute for schooling. Psychological distress is evident among those exposed to severe war violence and is not limited to ex-combatants.
485 citations
TL;DR: In this study of sexual-violence survivors in a low-income, conflict-affected country, group psychotherapy reduced PTSD symptoms and combined depression and anxiety symptoms and improved functioning.
Abstract: This brief summarizes the results of a gender impact evaluation study, entitled Controlled trial of psychotherapy for Congolese survivors of sexual violence, conducted during the time period April and July 2011 in Democratic Republic of Congo. The study observed that a total of 65 percent of participants in the therapy group and 52 percent of participants in the individual support group completed all three assessments. Mean scores for combined depression and anxiety improved in the individual-support group (2.2 at baseline, 1.7 at the end of treatment, and 1.5 at 6 months after treatment), but improvements were significantly greater in the therapy group. Approximately 70 percent of participants in the therapy group met our criteria for probable depression or anxiety at baseline, with 10 percent or less meeting the criteria at either follow up assessment. In the individual-support group, the proportions of participants who met the criteria were as follows: 83 percent at baseline, 53 percent at the end of treatment, and 42 percent at 6 months after treatment. Funding for the study derived from USAID Victims of Torture Fund and the World Bank.
358 citations
TL;DR: In this paper, the available quantitative research on psychosocial adjustment and mental health among children (age Language: en) is reviewed and a review of the available qualitative studies is presented.
Abstract: Aims and scope: This article reviews the available quantitative research on psychosocial adjustment and mental health among children (age Language: en
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TL;DR: In this article, the impacts of war on both genders and assess how war experiences affect reintegration success were investigated. But the authors focused on males and found that women returning from armed groups reintegrate socially and are resilient.
Abstract: What are the impacts of war on the participants, and do they vary by gender? Are ex-combatants damaged pariahs who threaten social stability, as some fear? Existing theory and evidence are both inconclusive and focused on males. New data and a tragic natural quasi-experiment in Uganda allow us to estimate the impacts of war on both genders, and assess how war experiences affect reintegration success. As expected, violence drives social and psychological problems, especially among females. Unexpectedly, however, most women returning from armed groups reintegrate socially and are resilient. Partly for this reason, postconflict hostility is low. Theories that war conditions youth into violence find little support. Finally, the findings confirm a human capital view of recruitment: economic gaps are driven by time away from civilian education and labor markets. Unlike males, however, females have few civilian opportunities and so they see little adverse economic impact of recruitment.
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TL;DR: Emerging themes from qualitative interviews with young women who have returned from abduction into the Lord's Resistance Army in northern Uganda are described, suggesting that decreasing household violence will depend on the strength of interventions to address all levels.
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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigated conditions sufficient for identification of average treatment effects using instrumental variables and showed that the existence of valid instruments is not sufficient to identify any meaningful average treatment effect.
Abstract: We investigate conditions sufficient for identification of average treatment effects using instrumental variables. First we show that the existence of valid instruments is not sufficient to identify any meaningful average treatment effect. We then establish that the combination of an instrument and a condition on the relation between the instrument and the participation status is sufficient for identification of a local average treatment effect for those who can be induced to change their participation status by changing the value of the instrument. Finally we derive the probability limit of the standard IV estimator under these conditions. It is seen to be a weighted average of local average treatment effects.
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TL;DR: Why Men Rebel was first published in 1970 on the heels of a decade of political violence and protest not only in remote corners of Africa and Southeast Asia, but also at home in the United States as discussed by the authors.
Abstract: Why Men Rebel was first published in 1970 on the heels of a decade of political violence and protest not only in remote corners of Africa and Southeast Asia, but also at home in the United States. Forty years later, the world is riveted on uprisings in the Middle East, and the United States has been overtaken by a focus on international terrorism and a fascination with citizen movements at home and abroad. Do the arguments of 1970 apply today? Why Men Rebel lends new insight into contemporary challenges of transnational recruitment and organization, multimedia mobilization, and terrorism.
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TL;DR: For example, the authors notes that although the country acceded to the 1951 Convention and the 1967 Protocol in 1999, incorporation of these obligations into national legislation and normative acts has been slow and to date Kazakhstan has failed to comply with its obligation to give full effect to the Covenant in the domestic legal order.
Abstract: 4. UNHCR notes with concern that although the country acceded to the 1951 Convention and the 1967 Protocol in 1999, incorporation of the 1951 Convention obligations into national legislation and normative acts has been slow and to date Kazakhstan has failed to comply with its obligation to give full effect to the Covenant in the domestic legal order, inter alia providing for effective judicial and other remedies for violations of these rights
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